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Professionnel, Le (1981)

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User Rating: 7.6/10 (2,150 votes)
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Overview

Director:
Georges Lautner
Writers:
Patrick Alexander (novel)
Jacques Audiard (writer)
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Release Date:
21 October 1981 (France) more
Genre:
Action | Thriller more
Plot:
French secret agent Joss Baumont is sent to one of the African countries to kill their president Njala... more | add synopsis
Awards:
1 win & 1 nomination more
User Comments:
Nothing short of a masterpiece! more

Cast

 (Credited cast)
Jean-Paul Belmondo ... Josselin Beaumont dit 'Joss'
Jean Desailly ... Le ministre
Robert Hossein ... Le commissaire Rosen
Michel Beaune ... Le capitaine Valeras
Cyrielle Clair ... Alice Ancelin
Jean-Louis Richard ... Le colonel Martin
Sidiki Bakaba ... Le prisonnier évadé
Pierre Saintons ... Le président N'Jala
Marie-Christine Descouard ... Doris Frederiksen
Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu ... L'inspecteur Farges

Elisabeth Margoni ... Jeanne Baumont
Pierre Vernier ... Salvatore Volfoni
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Maurice Auzel ... Un flic
Baaron
Michel Berreur ... Clochard
Jean-Claude Bouillaud
Daniel Breton
Julien Bukowski
Jacques Canselier ... Livreur de fleurs
Guillaume Corea
Gérard Darrieu ... Picard
Cheik Doukouré
Pierre Forget
Dany Kogan ... Le Sergent Gruber
Beate Kopp
Sidney Kotto
René Lafleur
Marc Lamole
Guy Mairesse ... Instructor Picard
Bernard Marcellin
Bele Mukeba
Samuel Nolison
Serge Nubret ... L'infirmier au procès
Pascal N'Zonzi
Claude-Bernard Perot
Yves Pignot
André Weber ... Le clochard "associé"
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Professional (USA)
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Runtime:
109 min
Country:
France
Language:
French
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.66 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Norway:16 | West Germany:16
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Company:
Cerito Films more

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Trivia:
Like many other Belmondo vehicles, this movie was purchased by the Soviet movie ministry in 1982. However, it was not released until 1990, presumably due to the fact that the movie was critical of Third World regimes. more
Goofs:
Continuity: When the clochards reach the car with the policemen inside, one of the chlochards destroys a bottle on the roof of the car, so the roof gets wet and there are lots of glass splinters on it. In various shots after, the roof is completely clean again. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Cent et une nuits de Simon Cinéma, Les (1995) more
Soundtrack:
Le Vent, Le Cri more

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14 out of 21 people found the following comment useful:-
Nothing short of a masterpiece!, 22 July 1999
10/10
Author: Angeneer from Athens, Greece

This is a movie I can't help seeing again and again. The classic scenes are so many I don't have enough space to write them. Best of all, the very last scene (Joss exiting the castle). The movie is brilliantly complimented by Ennio Morricone's Chi Mai, a song you must have in your CD drawer. Don't you miss it!

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